{"id":69198,"date":"2025-01-30T00:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/29\/eu-launches-simplification-agenda-in-effort-to-keep-up-with-us-and-china"},"modified":"2025-01-30T00:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:10:04","slug":"eu-launches-simplification-agenda-in-effort-to-keep-up-with-us-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69198","title":{"rendered":"EU launches \u2018simplification\u2019 agenda in effort to keep up with US and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ursula von der Leyen announces plans to cut red tape and boost innovation in second term as head of European Commission<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/jan\/29\/openai-china-deepseek-model-train-ai-chatbot-r1-distillation-ftse-100-federal-reserve-bank-of-england-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The EU executive has announced \u201can unprecedented simplification effort\u201d to cut regulations and boost innovation in an attempt to reverse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/jan\/24\/davos-donald-trump-tariffs-eu-us\">Europe\u2019s economic decline <\/a>and better compete with China and the US.<\/p>\n<p>In her first major policy announcement since starting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/18\/ursula-von-der-leyen-wins-second-term-european-commission-president\">a second term<\/a> as European Commission president last month, Ursula von der Leyen outlined policy proposals intended to boost Europe\u2019s flagging economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/29\/eu-launches-simplification-agenda-in-effort-to-keep-up-with-us-and-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ursula von der Leyen announces plans to cut red tape and boost innovation in second term as head of European CommissionBusiness live \u2013 latest updatesThe EU executive has announced \u201can unprecedented simplification effort\u201d to cut regulations and boost in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,50,221,530,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-china","category-europe","category-european-union","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69203,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69198\/revisions\/69203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}